Here they put up at a hostelry, and Harry sent a messenger to Lord Ashburnham, who had summoned him, and was in attendance upon the king, to say that he had arrived.
An hour later Lord Ashburnham joined him.

"I am glad you have come, Master Furness," he said.

"The king needs faithful servants; and it's well that you have come to-day, as I have been ordered by those in power to remove from the king's person.

His majesty has lost all hope of coming to an agreement with either party here.

At one time it seemed that Cromwell and Ireton were like to have joined him, but a letter of the king's, in which he spoke of them somewhat discourteously, fell into their hands, and they have now given themselves wholly over to the party most furious against the king.